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3.2 What about my career?
Many doctors are concerned that time spent overseas may damage their career prospects. Recent comments from the highest levels in some of the Royal Colleges indicates that increasingly, the Colleges and NHS employers are beginning to look more favourably on overseas experience because of the skills, perspectives, maturity and adaptability that have been gained. You will find that experience gained abroad will give you an edge over other candidates for the posts you seek. I have already quoted the DoH document International Humanitarian and Health Work (1:3)
Lord Crisp, in his report - Global Health Partnerships - published in March 2007, reviewed how the UK could best support the development of healthcare in LDCs. He makes several recommendations which, if taken up, could make things significantly easier for those considering taking time out to work abroad – leading both to recognition of the work they have been doing and facilitating re-entry to the NHS.
Extracts from recommendations 5, 7 & 9 in 'Global Health Partnerships' – March 2007
- Advocates recognition of the value of working overseas both during training and career development with a plea to remove disincentives and improve opportunities
- Allow individuals to maintain pension continuity while working abroad
- The PMETB, DoH and Royal Colleges to facilitate overseas training and work experience
- The DOH to create arrangements for revalidation and accreditation for individuals who are working abroad for prolonged periods of time who are planning to return to the UK
- Supports THET in its role in developing links between health organisations in the UK and overseas
The full document can be found at www.dfid.gov.uk/pubs/files/ghp.pdf
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Ultimately, of course, the issue is one of faith. Our professional life doesn't lie outside God's sovereign control. Rather it involves stepping out in obedience to him, knowing that he will guide us, sometimes by a route we never imagined. His plan for our life may be radically different from our own and he will reveal it on a need-to-know basis. It is never God's ability to guide that is the problem but rather our difficulty in being sure that we are hearing his voice and/or an unwillingness to trust and obey.
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Acknowledgements
My thanks to Chris Lavy, Eldryd Parry, Ian Spillman and Nick Wooding, all of whom have worked overseas and have a continuing involvement, for their helpful comments and advice.
First edition 1994 - Entitled ‘A Medical Missions Handbook’ by Peter Saunders.
Second Edition 1998 (updated April 2000)
Third Edition September 2003 - by Peter Armon
Fourth Edition 2007 – renamed ‘Working Abroad’ - totally revised & rewritten by Peter Armon
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